External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday took a humorous swipe at Pakistan over the Kashmir issue – a subject the country frequently tries to flag in global forums with no success – declaring “no one talks about losing stock”.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV, it was put to Mr Jaishankar that one of his biggest achievements as India’s external affairs minister is that he is no longer grilled about the Pakistan-Kashmir issue – a quagmire of a subject that hounded several of his predecessors and their governments.

“Kashmir-Pakistan issue is a verdict of the market… who talks about losing stocks?” he responded with a smile in an interview ahead of the G20 summit to be held in Delhi next weekend.